2.7.1 - Shams, the Mother of the Poor (Marchena)

As he traveled between Seville and Moror, the Greatest Shaykh passed by Marchena, probably accompanied by Shaykh Abdullah al-Mawruri, who may have returned with him to Seville as we shall see shortly, where they gathered with Shams the Mother of the Poor.

The name of Shams is Yasmine, and she was one of the Lamenting Saints (al-Awliyaa al-Awwahin). Shaykh Muhyiddin says that God has taken this kind of awliyaa for the lamenting due to the sorrow they find in their hearts in response to their lack of perfection and connection [Futuhat: II.35].

In the Holy Spirit, Shaykh Muhyiddin says: She lived at Marchena where I visited her often. Among people of our kind I have never met one like her with respect to the control she had over her soul. In her spiritual activities and communications she was among the greatest. She had a strong and pure heart, a noble spiritual power and a fine discrimination. She usually concealed her spiritual state, although she would often reveal something of it to me in secret because she knew of my own attainment, which gladdened me. She was endowed with many graces. I had considerable experience of her intuition and found her to be a master in this sphere. Her spiritual state was characterized chiefly by her fear of God and His good pleasure in her, the combination of the two at the same time in one person being extremely rare among us.

2.7.1.2- Macroscopic and Biological Quantum Tunneling

2.7.1.3- The Book of Utopia

2.7.1.4- The Ruins of Medina Azahara